Windows 11

[George K]

@copper how big of an "update" is it?

[Copper]

It's the next version of windows.

I skimmed the changes, there doesn't seem to be much that I will care about. Some of it sounds to me that they are finally eliminating some of the stupid stuff that everyone hated with Windows 8.

My motivation for doing the upgrade is that 11 > 10.

I think the price (free) is a new concept for MS, stolen from Apple. I might be wrong, there might have been other free version upgrades.

Here is the What's New: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/windows-11-whats-new

[George K]

I'm downloading the ISO from Microsoft's site now.

The ISO is 5.57 gigs - about the same as a MacOS download.

Let's see how the install goes (assuming I can use the ISO to install via Parallels).

[Doctor Phibes]

Let me know how it goes - I’m giving it a year before I ‘upgrade’ but I’m interested to know if there are any benefits

[Copper]

I went out for a few hours and the download now says 97% complete.

I don't know the size, but it must be more than 5GB. The download will end up taking about 3.5 hours.

[Doctor Phibes]

To be honest, I'd have been happy to stick with Windows 7, and 10 has worked pretty well. I don't like the fact that they're getting more and more controlling, and pushing so hard to use Onedrive. I wasn't concentrating when I installed one piece of software, and they put all the data onto Onedrive, with a file so big it crashed when I tried to sync.

The fact that you can't uninstall Edge is another source of annoyance, as is the fact that it keeps trying to persuade me to use Bing as a default search engine. Honestly, who the hell would want to do that? Just drop the bloody thing and admit defeat.

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in Windows 11:

I don't like the fact that they're getting more and more controlling, and pushing so hard to use Onedrive. I wasn't concentrating when I installed one piece of software, and they put all the data onto Onedrive, with a file so big it crashed when I tried to sync.
The fact that you can't uninstall Edge is another source of annoyance, as is the fact that it keeps trying to persuade me to use Bing as a default search engine. Honestly, who the hell would want to do that?

Your comments, in a nutshell, summarize one of the big complaints I have about Windows. Granted, there's no question that Apple's ecosystem is very closed, presumably, for the sake of "having everything work with everything." That's been Apple's mantra since the 1980s.

Windows has always been "in your face" going back to the days of "Clippy."

But, to address your comment, it's never been "in your face" as much as I hear Windows is. iCloud is an option, to be sure, but no app that I'm aware of will default to storing files there, rather than locally or onto another person's computer cloud service. I never get nagged about which browser or which search function to use. As a matter of fact, I never get nagged at all, at least not by my computer.

[Doctor Phibes]

Repeatedly making my default .pdf reader into MS Edge is more than annoying, it's borderline war-crime.

[Copper]

Let the upgrade run overnight

2 hours ago, upgrade 0% complete

1 hour ago, upgrade 0% complete

30 minutes ago Power off/on

Now, Undoing changes to your computer, no ETA

[George K]

@copper said in Windows 11:

Let the upgrade run overnight

2 hours ago, upgrade 0% complete

1 hour ago, upgrade 0% complete

30 minutes ago Power off/on

Now, Undoing changes to your computer, no ETA

If it weren't so pathetic, it would be funny.

Get a Mac....

[Mik]

I thought about it, but I'm never an early adopter of technology.

[mark]

I had no issue installing Windows 11. Then I discovered an issue with performance of AMD Ryzen processors, so before the 10 days were up, I reverted back to Windows 10. No issue there either.

I will be doing the Win11 install again soon. Not sure exactly when but, they have reportedly fixed the issue with Ryzen processors .

[Copper]

About an hour later Windows 10 is back

It seems fine, so the recovery process seems OK

I enjoy punishment, especially from new software releases, I'll probably try again today.

[Copper]

And I have a Mac

It won't be long before Apple tells me it is old and useless and I should buy a new one

Pick your poison

They are all the same to me

[Copper]

Windows 11 is up and running

I started the install yesterday AM and let it run all day

I did the restart overnight

This morning it came up slowly

It is very slow, I expect it will be like this for a few hours while it catches up with all the installs and indexing

It is time to get the SSD. I have to find a simple, quick, reliable method to clone the HD.

[LuFins Dad]

So… does anybody think it’s a coincidence that they came out with a Windows update after Omicron has shown resistance to the vaccine? I think NOT!

[Doctor Phibes]

@lufins-dad said in Windows 11:

So… does anybody think it’s a coincidence that they came out with a Windows update after Omicron has shown resistance to the vaccine? I think NOT!

I've gone completely blue after my last booster shot, and I feel like death.

[89th]

I had Windows 11 upgrade automatically overnight. No issues so far.

Only thing I've noticed so far is the taskbar icons are in the middle now, and the windows all have slightly rounded corners. I'd imagine those were the only 2 things Microsoft had on their product roadmap for this major version update, right?

[Copper]

That's about it.

The file explorer default font looks slightly different, but maybe not.

[89th]

@copper said in Windows 11:

The file explorer default font looks slightly different, but maybe not.

I think it's a slightly different flavor of the Segoe UI font they've used for a while. Also looks 1 pt smaller, too.